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Phil Willmott's A Christmas Carol
MokitaGrit Productions reprises Charles Dickens' adaptation at England's first pub theatre which produced playwrights Noel Coward, Terrence Rattigan, and Harold Pinter.
Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2010 Season
For Stratford's 58th season, the accent' s French, from Jacques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris, and Dangerous Liaisons, to The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again.
Stratford Festival 2009 Playwrights' Retreat.
Eight of Canada's most exciting writers are now developing their own stage projects as part of a current three-week residency for The Second Annual Playwrights' Retreat.
Anthony Herrera's Poetry Theatre
Famous British sculptor / painter and Winston Churchill's granddaughter, with Mississippi building magnate, help to promote timeless work of the world's best poets.
Poetry Theatre – From The Bard to Eric Bogle
Anthony Herrera, villain James Stenbeck, on As The World Turns, author of The Cancer War, presents Ogden Nash, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, to new generations.
Studio Theatre Shows - Stratford Festival Canada
Directors Jennifer Tarver, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Morris Panych, work with actors Lucy Peacock, Sam Moses, Rick Roberts, Kelli Fox, Sarah Orenstein and Joseph Ziegler.
Three Sisters - Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Russian classic has Stratford's finest including Lucy Peacock, Irene Poole,and Dalal Badr as The Prozorov Sisters, with Tom McCamus, James Blendick, and Joyce Campion.
Macbeth at The Stratford Shakespeare Festival
This is the second time Des McAnuff has directed Macbeth. In 1983 he directed Nicholas Pennell. In 2009, he directs Colm Feore, not with a bang, but a whimper.
Ever Yours Oscar: Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Ever Yours, Oscar featuring Brian Bedford at Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Tom Patterson Theatre, is one of the 2009 season's Must See Shows.
Sunil Kuruvilla: From Stratford to Sundance
Canadian playwright on The Stratford Shakespeare Festival Playwrights' Retreat, Sundance Institute Ucross Foundation and Stage Scribes to Watch in 2009.
Fighting Words - Sunil Kuruvilla's Earlier Work
Rice Boy author's early play about Banterweight Boxer Johnny Owen and his connection to three Welsh women gives its small cast plenty of passionate sparring room.
Neil Munro and Harley Granville Barker
Shaw's resident director presented the entire canon of Edwardian ensemble-oriented playwrights from The Voysey Inheritance to Waste - a fitting gift to new audiences.
Glengarry Glen Ross at Soulpepper Theatre in Toronto
Jordan Pettle, Glengarry Glen Ross at Soulpepper, and why Mamet speaks to female audiences in today's dog-eat-dog corporate rat race.
David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross
Glengarry Glen Ross was written in 1982, the age of Reaganomics, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman one $*&^% step removed - a forerunner of Sales Sharks Yet to Come.
Actor Jordan Pettle on Playwright David Mamet
In contemporary sales themed theatre classic, Zadies Shoe's star swaps swearwords with real-estate sharks Eric Peterson, Peter Donaldson and Albert Schultz.
Playwright Sunil Kuruvilla's Fighting Words
As Rice Boy debuts for Stratford Shakespeare Festival's 2009 season, Sunil Kuruvilla, once a boxer himself, chats about a Welsh Banterweight Boxing Legend.
Adam Kelly - Theatre's Future in Canada
Alan's Search for the Best Girl in Montreal / Anorak author on the decline of theatre against TV, the internet and global recession
Montreal Canada's Theatre 314
Canadian playwright Adam Kelly does not believe in auditions or theatre formulas, teaching classes to work from the heart for honest, visceral, compelling performance.
Adam Kelly on Montreal, Canada's Theatre 314
Though there are few English speaking theatre companies in Montreal, Theatre 314 thrives presenting intelligent, progressive, ballsy, live performance.
Adam Kelly - Two Sides of A Montreal Playwright
On Feb 6, 2009, as one of Canada's most controversial films opens in Quebec to be shown nationwide, Adam Kelly, who collaborated on this film, lives a strange paradox.
Alan's Search For The Best Girl In Montreal
Adam Kelly's premiere comedy features 20 women vs The Affairs of His Own Heart, on the eve of Valentine's Day. Is he more Carrie Bradshaw or Samantha Jones? You decide.
Canadian Playwright and Actor Adam Kelly
In the new play Alan's Search for the Best Girl in Montreal, which opens Feb 12 at Theatre 314, Cupid's Always Missing the Mark ... and Adam Kelly.
Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Christmas Shows
CSI star William Petersen stars in Dublin Carol, and Frasier's John Mahoney stars in The Seafarer - Two Seasonal Plays for the Bah Humbug in Everyone.
Robert Wilson - Faust and The Black Rider
Visionary New York director stages world premiere in honour of 200th anniversary of composer Wolfgang Von Goethe while his touring 1990s Expressionist Opera Howls on.
Colm Feore: The How and Why of Hamlet
Colm Feore talks about his favourite Hamlets through the ages, and offers some insight into Hamlet's trouble with the fairer sex from Fair Ophelia to Naughty Mother.